I wish Doakes would start coming back to Dexter in visions. That would be some good television.

I was never a fan of Doakes. He played a good badass cop, but his "don't trust" relationship with Dexter was always overplayed. He always had a bad feeling about Dexter, but it was all stemmed from Dex taking a passion to his blood forensics. Dumb.

I wish Doakes would start coming back to Dexter in visions. That would be some good television.

I was never a fan of Doakes. He played a good badass cop, but his "don't trust" relationship with Dexter was always overplayed. He always had a bad feeling about Dexter, but it was all stemmed from Dex taking a passion to his blood forensics. Dumb.

I was glad when he got killed.

Season 5 looks like it won't disappoint.

It wasn't because he noticed Dexter's passion for blood forensics. It was because Doakes had the best instincts at Miami Metro.

Dexter even says it himself, "Why is Doakes the only one that sees through the facade? Why, in a building full of cops, is Doakes the only person I give the creeps?"

And the reason why it was portrayed the way it was in season 2 (the time frame I'm assuming you're referring to when you state that it was overplayed) was to showcase the level of obsession Dexter was going to have to deal with when it came to Doakes.

Excluding Dexter; Doakes and Lundy were the only people that worked with/at Miami Metro that were worth their salt in seasons 1 & 2._________________

I wish Doakes would start coming back to Dexter in visions. That would be some good television.

I was never a fan of Doakes. He played a good badass cop, but his "don't trust" relationship with Dexter was always overplayed. He always had a bad feeling about Dexter, but it was all stemmed from Dex taking a passion to his blood forensics. Dumb.

I was glad when he got killed.

Season 5 looks like it won't disappoint.

It wasn't because he noticed Dexter's passion for blood forensics. It was because Doakes had the best instincts at Miami Metro.

Dexter even says it himself, "Why is Doakes the only one that sees through the facade? Why, in a building full of cops, is Doakes the only person I give the creeps?"

And the reason why it was portrayed the way it was in season 2 (the time frame I'm assuming you're referring to when you state that it was overplayed) was to showcase the level of obsession Dexter was going to have to deal with when it came to Doakes.

Excluding Dexter; Doakes and Lundy were the only people that worked with/at Miami Metro that were worth their salt in seasons 1 & 2.

Okay, so how does "bad feeling" and "instincts" not correlate in this context? Doakes had a hatred against Dexter from the first episode. Like you said it was his instincts, but his overall spitefulness towards Dexter was never let down.

He might have been an alright character, but I never felt he was in parallel with the movement of the rest of the show.